Leslie Jones wants to be cast in the next Deadpool film as Ryan Reynold’s loud sidekick. She makes that clear on her appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers.
Leslie Jones is a comedian and actress who is a cast member and writer on Saturday Night Live. Jones has been a featured performer at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal and the Aspen Comedy Festival. In 2010, her one-hour comedy special, Problem Child, was broadcast on Showtime. Jones starred in Ghostbusters this past year as Patty Tolan.
During the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, Jones drew attention on social media and in the press as a Team USA “superfan”, regularly live-tweeting events and posting videos of her reactions. Enthusiasm for Jones’s commentary grew and Television producer Mike Shoemaker, one of Jones’s Twitter followers, posted on Twitter that his friend Jim Bell, NBC’s executive producer of the network’s Olympics coverage, should add Jones to NBC’s team of commentators covering the Games. Bell responded on Twitter the next day asking Jones to join NBC in Rio. She accepted and flew to Rio, covering swimming, track and field, gymnastics and beach volleyball for NBC. And the rest is history.
So if her enthusiasm for starring in the Deadpool sequel garners the attention of Ryan Reynolds much like the NBC team, we’re going to see her boast the superpower of “yelling people’s clothes off.” Watch the vid, you’ll know what we mean.
